what is going on everyone how about we talk about the Queen City Charlotte
North Carolina Charlotte is called the Queen City because it's named after King
George the Third's wife Queen Charlotte that's King George the third is his name
she's not like his third wife I think she was his only wife anyway Queen
Charlotte died 200 years ago this last November 2018 and we're still talking
about her that woman must have been amazing I read an interesting stat about
North Carolina it stated that 60% of high schoolers did not run the south
don't realize North Carolina is a southern state I guess if you've never
had a geography class looked at a map or used your brain for anything other than
Instagram or snapchat this is understandable and stop typing you'll
just embarrass yourself yes it does have the word North in it but it's still a
southern state google it if you have to Charlotte is a major city and commercial
hub for North Carolina it is home to almost 750,000 southerners currently
they have a lot of people moving into Charlotte and for a lot of good reasons
but Charlotte isn't for everyone if you're thinking about moving to the
Queen City you should watch my top ten reasons not to move to Charlotte North
Carolina number 10 a growing population Charlotte is an ever growing City about
60 new residents move in every single day and 38 out of those 60 the first
thing they say is hold on a second this is a southern city because of those 60
new residents the city will get overcrowded really fast if the trend
continues it's estimated that there will be an extra 1.8 million residents in the
city by 2050 that's not too far away it's like 30 years from now the good
news is their suburbs are kind of lightly populated a lot of single houses
on half acres of land so they got a little room to grow the thing is do they
want to number-9 crime crime in charlotte keeps getting worse by 1
percent every single year there's an average of 12 crimes per 100,000
residents with an overall crime rate that 63% higher than the national
average well you're in the city you have a 1 in 23 chance of being involved in a
crime the thing is this charlotte has some poverty-stricken neighborhoods and
with that you get some crime so let me help you out if you see a place that is
really cheap rent make sure it's not in one of these neighborhoods our
Bergland Westover Hills or Pine Crest your life isn't worth cheap rent number
eight the job market it's never a good plan to move to a new city without
nailing down a job first you really need to obtain a job before moving to the
Queen City trust me on that one the unemployment rate is three point six
percent as of December 2018 now that is not terrible and I get it that's until
you look at the unskilled worker rate which is far worse at seven percent this
place has all the fast food and retail workers it needs in Charlotte it's a
good idea to have some math or medical skills some of the major employers
include Wells Fargo Bank of America Carolina's health system no bat health
incorporated and of course finance company Vanguard the city is very much a
finance in health care town and stop typing they have other companies besides
the ones I mentioned but it's an eight to ten minute video I don't have time to
list all of them I always get that in the comments section so e something like
you forgot Chuck's vegan steakhouse it's the largest vegan Steakhouse in the
country don't get it
number seven NASCAR nothing says southern state more than
NASCAR Charlotte is home to one of the main headquarters which leads to almost
every resident being into the sport if you're moving to Charlotte and you
aren't already a NASCAR fan you should brush up on the topic before your
neighbor corners you for an hour-long history lesson on NASCAR and if they
have a big flag in the front house that's black with the number three on it
don't say anything stupid about that flag treat it like a religious symbol I
kid you not now this one's one of those ones that
really it's not something that would stop you from moving there it's just be
forewarned about this one
number six bad history Charlotte has a history of having bad history if that
can be a thing besides the more current history where they're newly elected
mayor back in 2013 was arrested on corruption charges three months after
being sworn in which is always a feather in Charlotte's cap to a smallpox
outbreak back when the first Europeans showed up the Catawba Native Americans
are the first tribe known to have settled in the Charlotte area by 1759
half of the tribe was gone from smallpox brought over by the Europeans while
their population had once been about 10,000 by 1826 they're popular
drop to 110 thanks for the blanket
number 5 no mountains no ocean more and more people want to spend time in nature
I got bad news for the outdoorsy transplant residents to Charlotte
Charlotte isn't necessarily close to any mountains or beaches the nearest
mountains are the Smoky Mountains about 3 and a half hours west of the city
while the nearest Ocean Beach is about 4 hours east and that's not good for
people that like to get in a quick hike on the weekends if you move here from
Denver or let's say Portland keep this in mind and be mentally prepared nobody
wants to see a hipster crying on the side of a very flat hiking trail number
4 traffic traffic I know I get it it's on all these lists about major cities
stop typing but traffic in Charlotte will only seem horrible if you've never
really experienced bad traffic before rush hour is of course the worst but
nowhere near places like New York City Los Angeles San Francisco and Boston but
it's getting bad for example driving from the middle of the city to the
neighboring city of Matthews which is only a 12 mile commute will take you
about 45 minutes during rush hour that was a 30 minute drive I'm told ten years
ago this kind of points back to the population thing either either it will
get worse than they'll do nothing about it or they will do something about it
and it'll still get bad for about five years because they're doing all kinds of
construction it's like a no-win well it is a wind but damned if you do damned if
you don't
number three it's on it the first Europeans came to Charlotte in
1755 and it became incorporated in 1768 in other words the city's old which of
course that means it's haunted some places that are said to be haunted
include the Kennedy barn grill lot of plantation and the Carolina theater now
if you're into that type of thing you know who you are you've read all the
Stephen King books you dream about having Halloween on Christmas and you
tell all your friends that a psychic once told you you were the Salem witch
trials in a past life you know what is the deal with that why do these people
always have such exciting past lives you never hear something like well I
guess I was a horse breeder in the 1700s and I died when a horse decided to try
and breed with me I always wondered why is afraid of horses you know it's always
the exciting stuff nothing like some dude that got killed by his horse yeah
but so Charlotte's haunted number-two weather no one moves to Charlotte for
the weather and there's reasons for that in the winter months temperatures get
about freezing but rarely drop below 20 in the summers it's hot humid and
temperatures are usually in the 90s it's generally cloudy and sticky year-round
the heat and humidity should shock nobody that knows about the south and in
case you missed it earlier and you're a millennial North Carolina is in the
south and the final blow to your plans to moving to Charlotte should be the
Hurricanes they've gotten some really bad ones over the years they've even
named their NHL team the Hurricanes and number one schools there's about 126
public schools and 58 private schools in the City of Charlotte the average test
scores here about 11% lower than the national average while 82 percent of
residents have graduated high school only about 40% go on to graduate from a
four-year college that's a really low number for an area with a crap ton of
financial jobs like I said they got all the fast-food workers they need not that
there's anything wrong with fast food I did fast food once for like four hours I
just wanted to mark it off my bucket list now if I could find a cheerleader
with a Freddy Krueger mask I can get that one done but hey that's just me but
yeah the schools there they're not too good in Charlotte you'd expect them to
be a little better with the type of jobs they have to offer there all right so
that's my top ten reasons not to move to Charlotte I hope you guys enjoyed it
hope you got some information out of it as always all in all Charlotte is not a
terrible place to live these are just some things you should keep in mind
before you move there they got good people it's an exciting city a great new
music scene but hey it's got its knocks just like every other place everybody
have a great day be nice to each other